Shutter bower and fastener.



No. 655.866. Patented Aug. I4, |900.

H. HEWES &. S. L. TROUPE.

SHUTTER BOWEB AND FASTENEH.

(Application filed Mar. 14, 1900.)

(No Model.)

/ Sme/whom HARRY HEVES, OF DARBY, AND SAMUEL L. TROUPE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

Sil-BUTTER BOWER AND FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 655,866, dated August 14, 1900.

Application tiled March 14.-, 1900. Serial No. 8,622. (No model.)

T all whom t may concern:

Be it known that we, HARRY I-IEWES, residing at Darby, in the county of Delaware, and SAMUEL L. TROUPE, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia, State ofPennsylvania,citizens of the United States, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shutter Bowers and Fasteners; and we do hereby declare the following to be lo afull, clear, and exact description of the inveiton, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to shutter bowers and fasteners for window-shutters, and has for its object to improve the construction and operation of suchpdevices.

With this object in view the invention consists in a device of this class of the construcz'o tion hereinafter fully described and afterward specifically claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a windowshutter bower made in accordance with our invention and applied to shutters. Fig. 2 is an inverted plan view of one of the bolts, illustrating our preferred form of spring. Fig. 3 is a similar View showing a slightly-modified form of spring. Fig. 4 is a perspective view 3o of one of the bolts and housings. Fig. 5 is a vertical sectional view of the same, showing the spring supporting the bolt; and Fig. 6 is a detail view of the engaging ends of the two bolts.

In the accompanying drawings, l represents one of the bolts. The said bolts, with the exception of the engaging ends, being exact duplicates and the surrounding parts of each being similar it is deemed suflicient to de-` 4o scribe only one. Bolt l is provided with oblong notches 2 and slidesin a housing` 3, said notches being adapted to engage the rear strip 4 of said housing. The bolt l is adapted to receive an outward pressure and be caused to bear against the strips 4 4 by the spring 5,

which comprises a central tongue 6 for giving the spring-pressure, and side pieces 7 7 for securing the spring to a shutter by means of the apertures 8, registering with the aper- 5o tures in the front part of the housing 3 and through which a fastening means is adapted to be passed. Any suitable form of operating knob or handle, as 9, is adapted to be attached to the bolt l for sliding the same back and forth.

As heretofore stated, the two bolts which comprise our invention differentiate only in the form of their engaging ends, one of said bolts having an eye 10 formed on its outer end, which is adapted to be engaged by the 6o hooked end ll of the other bolt. This hooked end is so formed that when the two bolts are brought together at a straight angle it will so engage the eye 10 as to permit the shutter carrying the eyebolt to swing free of the said hook; but when the two bolts are left in engagement and swung to an obtuse angle the hookv will engage the eye in such manner as to prevent disengagement until the bolts are returned to the straight angle. 7o

As seen in Fig. 3, the spring supporting the bolt may be made in T shape and applied by clamping the head 12 at each end thereof over the sides of the housing 3 and allowing the tongue 13 to bear against the bolt l with- 75 out departing from the spirit of our invention.

It will be seen from the above description that the eect of the spring-pressure will be to cause notches 2 to engage the rear strip 4 as they are respectively brought in line with 8o the said strip in the backward and forward movement of the bolt. Said rear strip 4 is flattened to make this registering engagement 4 more effectual, and it will be seen that by such registration the shutter to which our invention is applied may be adj usted to any given position and there firmly held until pressure is put upon the lug 9 sufficient to overcome that of the spring 5,when said shutter may be adjusted by a backward or for- 9o ward movement of the bolt, and as the springpressure is allowed to be reasserted the notch 2 in alinement with the rear strip 4 will be forced into registration with the same. The position thus assumed will be retained until again altered, as above described.

Having thus described our invention., what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-VM n l. The combination with a pair of windowroo shutters, of a bower attached to the same, comprising two non-revoluble, slidable bolts,

one of said bolts having an eye, the axis of which is maintained in a horizontal position, and the other provided with an outwardlypointing, sernieircular hook having its free end projecting at a right angle to the length of the bolt, upon which end the eye of the other bolt will pivotally engage when the shutters are being bowed, the eyebolt being free to be disengaged from said hook when the shutters are closed, whereby the shutter carrying the eyebolt is free to be opened from its closed position, substantially as described.

2. A shutter bower and fastener, comprising longitudinallyslidable, non-revoluble, engaging bolts, each provided with a series of notches and an operating handle or knob, one of said bolts being provided with an eye at its outer end having its axis maintained in a horizontal position, and the other of said bolts provided with a selnicircular, outwardly-pointing hook having its free end projecting at a right angle to the length of the bolt, upon which hook the eye will engage when the shutters to which the bolts are ating provided with a longitudinal slot in its wall through which the handle or knob operates, the rear wall of each of said slots being adapted to engage any one of the notches in its respective bolt, and a liat spring beneath each of said bolts, whereby the bolts are normally pressed to cause said-rear walls to engage the notches, and thus hold the bolts in any desired longitudinal adjustment, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we hereuntoafx our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

HARRY HEWES. SAMUEL L. TROUPE.

Witnesses:

J. W. OAMAG, SALLIE R. GAMAC. 

